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Post by glenoweth on Apr 6, 2012 20:29:24 GMT -6
This is a thread where i am going to log my breeding trials with the 3 pairs of WC Triglachromis otostigma. The start! the tank when it was awaiting fish. Log started 4/6/2012  The Trigs when i unloaded them.     More to come! |
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Post by glenoweth on Apr 6, 2012 22:59:11 GMT -6
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Post by glenoweth on Apr 7, 2012 22:14:50 GMT -6
Someone asked about the egg tumbler , it was used to help settle the sand I just have not taken it out yet. I filled it with floss worked great.
The coolest thing I have seen sofar is how they find their food. They swim backwords and use their fins like little hands feeling the sand looking for the food it awesomes. At first I thought the fins were damaged but after doing some reading I found that they have sensors in the fins to feel for food in the mud, because they live in muddy sometimes hard to see places.
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Post by ree123 on Apr 7, 2012 22:31:15 GMT -6
They do have some long ventral fins. Interesting facts.
And you're right, they move a lot of sand, huh ?
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Post by glenoweth on Apr 7, 2012 22:48:35 GMT -6
Yeah they seemed to have left it the way u see it in the last pic. For now at least.
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Post by glenoweth on Apr 10, 2012 20:56:23 GMT -6
Update 4/10/2012 Photo taken with camera phone so its not the best. Here is what they have decorated my tank to look like over the passed weeks. I did not think i put that much sand in the tank but... wow  |
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Post by glenoweth on Apr 23, 2012 22:05:07 GMT -6
Update 4.23.2012
The trigs are doing awesome! Looks like the alpha female has a tummy full of eggs, her tube has dropped and she is fat! Hope this is a good sign. I will add pics tomorrow.
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Post by plecoman on Apr 23, 2012 22:08:16 GMT -6
Those are cool looking fish! Can't wait to see more pics!
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Post by glenoweth on Apr 24, 2012 6:19:04 GMT -6
Those are cool looking fish! Can't wait to see more pics! they are also very peaceful fish. they might chase stuff when breeding ,but besides that i would say they are like Cyprichromis when it comes to temperment. |
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Post by glenoweth on Apr 25, 2012 20:46:58 GMT -6
4.26.2012 Here is the pics of the fat female! its hard to tell but her tube looks like its dropping to! I hope.  here is what thier tank looks like now! lol crazy how they try to hide them self from me.  |
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Post by rickl on Apr 26, 2012 14:04:15 GMT -6
Way cool fish, Glen! Whats that you've got with them, a telmatochromis vittatus?
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Post by glenoweth on Apr 26, 2012 20:54:44 GMT -6
Telemachromis brichardi, used them to cycle the tank. And was going to take them out ,but they trigs pay them no mind and they seem to stay out of their way... Plus I could not catch them with out pulling the rocks out of the tank.
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